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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: The future of the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and Apple TV, and why Apple is shifting its mobile line to Qualcomm chipsets — We've been hearing a ton of rumors about what direction Apple's next set of products will take and when they'll be available — but now we've got some concrete information …
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution — There's been a lot of talk about a “Retina” display for the next generation iPad due from Apple in the coming months, but it hasn't been completely clear what resolution the iPad's “Retina” display would be.
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AppleInsider, pocketnow.com and Electronista
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Tweeting tyrants out of Tunisia: the global Internet at its best — Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had “brought down” the Tunisian government, but with today's news that the country's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali …
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Techie Buzz, Marshall Kirkpatrick …, ReadWriteWeb, textually.org, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mother Jones, New York Times and The Next Web
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Was What Happened in Tunisia a Twitter Revolution?
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techPresident, Foreign Policy, Net Effect, Jillian C. York, The Huffington Post, Smart Mobs, Boing Boing, NPR and The Atlantic Online
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The #Tunisian Revolution Wasn't Televized, But You Could Follow It On Twitter
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Gawker, Foreign Policy, Danger Room, WL Central and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Evgeny Morozov / Net Effect:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
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The Daily Dish, Boing Boing and The Atlantic Online
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Project HiJack uses iPhone audio jack to make cheap sensors — Making accessories that tie into an iOS device's Dock connector is an expensive proposition: it requires getting certain components from Apple and applying for a costly “Made for iPhone” (or iPod or iPad) license.
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Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish — Not satisfied with its polarizing about-face on net neutrality, this week Google threw away previous investments in H.264 and fully endorsed its own WebM format for native HTML5 video in Chrome. — There's no question that this is a shot at competing platforms …
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Mike Jazayeri / Chromium Blog:
More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change
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antimatter15.com, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Softpedia News, V3.co.uk, Mashable!, Neowin.net, The Register, [H]ardOCP News/Article Feed, paidContent, TechCrunch, OSNews, Relevant Results and Electronista, Thanks:arpitnext
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Clarifies Their H.264 Stance, Hands Keys Of Web Video's Future Back To Flash
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VentureBeat and jd/adobe
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Union Square Ventures' New Fund Announced: Here's What You Need To Know — In a blog post by Fred Wilson, top New York venture firm Union Square Ventures has officially announced its new $165 million fund, called The Opportunity Fund. — The fund came to light late last year …
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Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
The Opportunity Fund — We founded Union Square Ventures …
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TechCrunch and GigaOM
Anton D. Nagy / pocketnow.com:
Windows Phone 7 Screenshots Not A Microsoft Priority — Whether you're into journalism, app development, support or anything related, a platform's capability to take screenshots is an important tool and you definitely know this the hard way by now, if you're coming to Windows Phone 7 …
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CNET News, WMPoweruser.com and WPCentral.com
Christopher Blizzard / Mozilla Hacks:
Firefox 4 Beta 9 - a huge pile of awesome — Hello, and welcome to the post for Firefox 4 beta 9. If you're reading this then you're interested in what we've got coming down the pipe for the latest beta for the wonderful browser known as Firefox 4. We're starting to reach the end …
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Mashable!, eWeek, InformationWeek, Softpedia News, BetaNews, PC World, Techie Buzz, CNET News, Download Squad, NewsGrange and The Mozilla Blog, Thanks:arpitnext
Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon's Initial 2011 4G LTE Market Cities — During all of Verizon's 4G LTE device madness, they walked through their plans for rolling out their new network to the rest of the country. By the end of 2011, they are expecting to be in at least 140 markets and covering 2/3 of the U.S. once 2013 finishes up.
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BGR, Gadgetell, PhoneArena, Android Community and Android and Me
Brad Sams / Neowin.net:
Microsoft FaceTime competitor was supposed to be launched with WP7 — It was not long ago that Neowin broke the news about Microsoft's FaceTime competitor, but since we broke the news, a bit more information has come across our inbox and shines a bit more light into the details of the application.
Thanks:bdsams
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel CEO: How we will compete with ARM — Intel CEO Paul Otellini today spelled out how his company will compete with the burgeoning ARM chip ecosystem, which has taken the lead in tablet designs, during the chipmaker's fourth-quarter earnings conference call.
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International Business Times, TG Daily, Crave and Legit Reviews Hardware News
Chris Holt / Macworld:
Empire Online invades iOS App Store — Asian MMORPG invades American market, sword in hand — On Saturday, the English language version of Asia's largest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game launched on the App Store. Empire Online, developed by Lakoo, is an anime-inspired adventure title …
